In Nigeria's teeming city of Lagos, children in the Makoko area swim and play in filthy water surrounded by garbage. In Ivory Coast's largest city, Abidjan, thousands of families must fetch water from ...

The global water crisis is remarkably prevalent, leading the United Nations to hold its first Water Conference in over 45 years, where the organization says we are not on track to meet water goals by ...

Protecting the River Tana in the Meru national park is securing the water supply to Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Photograph: Hemis/Alamy Conserving the watershed of the Tana and improving farming methods ...

When it comes to water security – a reliable, good supply of safe water – just 29 African countries have made some progress over the past three to five years. Twenty-five have made none. This data ...